[whatwg] "Content-Disposition" property for <a> tags

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Dec 6 17:28:28 PST 2010


On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Roger Hågensen wrote:
>
> [..] I navigated to the http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RelExtensions where 
> I found: "enclosure" described as "the destination of the hyperlink is 
> intended to be downloaded and cached" and it's marked as "proposed" 
> currently.
> And it links further to http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-enclosure which was
> drafted in the summer of 2005.
> And it's already in use in the wild (mostly Feed related but by the looks of
> it elsewhere too).
> 
> May I suggest adding it to the specs? (after 5 years of proposed status 
> it's kinda time to decide right?)

There's work ongoing to decide exactly how the registry for rel="" values 
is going to work; I intend to wait until that is resolved and then letting 
the appropriate process/community work through the proposed values rather 
than doing that unilaterally myself.

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